What’s SHE Doing Here? The Messy Women in Jesus’s Genealogy 1

The Not So Fabulous Five Chapter 2

Matthew 1:1-17

1 The book of the Christ, the son of David, the son of .

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the 11 father of Amos,[c] and Amos the father of , and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to .

12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of , 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

I. What do we learn about these five women? II. What do we learn about Jesus? III. What do you learn about YOU?

DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRIES

What’s SHE Doing Here? The Messy Women in Jesus’s Genealogy 2

I. What do we learn about these 5 women?

II. What do we learn about Jesus in this genealogy?

a. Royal

b. Fully God and Man

c. Hands on Rescuer

d. Humble Rescuer

e. He loved the unlikely

III. So, what do you learn about YOU in this genealogy?

a. Don’t be shocked to find out you’re messy, especially if you go to church!

b. Don’t be shocked that you NEED Jesus.

c. And, don’t be shocked that Jesus calls you family. i. 2 Corinthians 6:18

ii. John 1:12

iii. Galatians 3:26-29

d. And, because we are loved that much, we love others the same way.

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